Argentina and Belgium Accuse HSBC of Aiding Tax Evasionby Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch BlogNovember 28th, 2014Argentina and Belgium have separately accused HSBC bank's Geneva branch of setting up a network of offshore accounts to help their citizens avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. The charges are apparently based on a trove of documents provided by Hervé Falciani, a former HSBC employee turned whistleblower.

Major Banks Prepare to Pay Billions For Foreign Exchange Manipulationby Richard Smallteacher, CorpWatch BlogOctober 31st, 2014Multinational banks are preparing to pay out billions of dollars in fines to settle charges of foreign exchange manipulation. Some 19 investigations in ten different legal jurisdictions are now winding their way to completion and analysts says the final tally may hit $41 billion.

Federal Regulators Failed to Police Goldman Sachs, Says Whistleblowerby Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch BlogSeptember 26th, 2014Carmen Segarra, a former senior examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has revealed how government regulators failed to adequately police Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank. (The Federal Reserve is the central banking system of the U.S. chartered by Congress to supervise private banks)

Bank of America to Pay $16.65 Billion to Settle Mortgage Fraud Chargesby Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch BlogAugust 21st, 2014Bank of America has agreed to pay the government $9.65 billion to settle charges of misleading investors over mortgage lending in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The bank will also pay out an additional $7 billion to help borrowers and communities affected by the loans.